Industry Insights
| Background on Proposed Rules Change on MMI Date | 03/11/2013 | ||
| By: Steve Nichols (News Contributor) | |||
| State: TX | Segment: | 0 | |||
| On Jan. 31, the Texas Department of Insurance’s Division of Workers’ Compensation announced that they are accepting public comment on a staff proposal to amend 28 Texas Administrative Code §130.1. The proposed amendment is intended to clarify the consequence of noncompliance of the ...Read More | |||
| Big Pharma and Big Influence: Get the Reps Out of Med Schools | 02/22/2013 | ||
| State: NA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Two recently published studies suggest that big pharma's influence is real and that it starts very early in a doctor's career. Medical schools have long been fertile ground for drug companies and their representatives to establish cozy relationships with doctors in hopes of influencing...Read More | |||
| Big Macs, Booze and Bricks | 06/04/2012 | ||
| By: Charles D. Lawson | |||
| State: TN | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Two Murfreesboro, Tenn. men, miffed at their incorrect order from a McDonald's drive-through, went back to the restaurant for a correction. They claim the manager was less than helpful, dropping the "F-bomb" on them, and telling them to take a hike.They did. Straight home to a pile o...Read More | |||
| Bill Eliminating Liberal Construction is Bad Policy | 05/29/2012 | ||
| State: LA | Segment: | 0 | |||
| "Disputes concerning the facts in workers' compensation cases shall not be given a broad, liberal construction in favor of either employees or employers; the laws pertaining to workers' compensation shall be construed in accordance with the basic principles of statutory construction and not ...Read More | |||
| Benefits for Activities of Daily Life will Massacre the Golden Goose | 05/18/2012 | ||
| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | Popular with Employer | |||
| As fast as we reported on the report from Illinois state Attorney General Lisa Madigan about issues facing the workers' compensation program for state workers, we saw another impossible-to-understand workers' compensation claim and ruling out of, you guessed it, the Menard Correctional Cente...Read More | |||
| Biology is Different in Ariz., when Driven by Politics | 03/22/2012 | ||
| State: AZ | Segment: | 0 | |||
| The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) and the Work Loss Data Institute (WLDI) have a constant public relations campaign going on convincing states that have not yet adopted medical treatment guidelines that it is more efficient and ethical to adopt national based st...Read More | |||
| Bill Puts More Power in Hands of Physicians who Dispense Drugs | 02/29/2012 | ||
| By: Michael Rabinowitz | |||
| State: FL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| In a state with the second highest incidence of drug overdose deaths in the nation, I am surprised that this type of legislation is getting steam. I’ve written before about physicians prescribing drugs and dispensing themselves. Chapter 440 has specific language that forbids an emp...Read More | |||
| Bring Workers' Comp Benefits in Line with Other States | 02/13/2012 | ||
| By: Indiana State Sen. Karen Tallian | |||
| State: IN | Segment: | 0 | |||
| State Sen. Karen Tallian (D-Portage) says she is extremely disappointed that a bill she authored to bring Indiana's workers' compensation benefits in line with other states will not receive a hearing this year. The legislation, Senate Bill 346, was not given a public hearing in a Senate comm...Read More | |||
| Businesses Getting Left at the Alter on Workers' Comp Savings | 01/24/2012 | ||
| By: Arik D. Hetue | |||
| State: IL | Segment: | 0 | |||
| Utilization review, or UR, became a fixture for the Illinois workers’ compensation system when it was brought to our state by a prominent Illinois claimant lawyer as part of the 2005-6 amendments to the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. Five years of limited effectiveness and disappointm...Read More | |||
| Bad News for Nev. Injured Workers who Fall at Work? | 12/23/2011 | ||
| State: NV | Segment: | 0 | |||
| According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2010, about a fifth of all workplace fatalities in Nevada were caused by a worker falling. Almost every serious fall injury I've handled in the Nevada work comp arena in the past 15 years was caused either by the employer's obvious f...Read More | |||
